China's emerging middle class : beyond economic transformation / Cheng Li, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, Cheng.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--China.

Middle class.

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As recently as two decades ago there was no distinct middle class in the People's Republic of China. Today, any meaningful discussion of China's economy, politics, or society must take into account the rapid emergence and explosive growth of the Chinese middle class. Cheng Li, a Brookings scholar and noted expert on China, leads a team of experts in detailing the origins and characteristics of this dramatic change, assessing its current effects on Chinese society and discussing what it portends for the future.

Contents:

Foreword / Kenneth Lieberthal

PART 1. The Global Significance of China's Emerging Middle Class

1. Introduction : the rise of the middle class in the Middle Kingdom / Cheng Li

2. The new global middle class : a crossover from West to East / Homi Kharas and Geoffrey Gertz

PART II. The Chinese Perspective : Social Stratification and Political Ideology

3. Chinese scholarship on the middle class : from social stratification to political potential / Cheng Li

4. Globalization, social transformation, and the construction of China's middle class / Zhou Xiaohong and Qin Chen

5. The Chinese middle class and xiaokang society / Lu Hanlong

PART III. Issues of Definition : Compositional Differences and Internal Divisions in China's Middle Class

6. Characterizing China's middle class : heterogeneous composition and multiple identities / Li Chunling

7. China's new upper middle classes : the importance of occupational disaggregation / Jianying Wang and Deborah Davis

PART IV. Expanding China's Middle Class : Housing Reform and Educational Development

8. China's housing reform and emerging middle class / Joyce Yanyun Man

9. The housing effect : the making of China's social distinctions / Luigi Tomba

10. Higher education expansion and China's middle class / Jiang Lin and Xiaoyan Sun

PART V. The Chinese Middle Class in Comparative Perspective

11. Placing China's middle class in the Asia-Pacific context / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

12. Middle-class grassroots identity and participation in citizen initiatives, China and South Korea / Han Sang-Jin

PART VI. China's Middle Class : An Agent of the Status Quo or a Force for Change?

13. China's cooperative capitalists : the business end of the middle class / Bruce J. Dickson

14. What do Chinese lawyers want? Political values and legal practice / Ethan Michelson and Sida Liu

15. Attitudes toward democracy and the political behavior of China's middle class / Jie Chen

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612896958

9781282896956

1282896954

9780815704331

081570433X

OCLC:

682540669